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Thursday, 1 May 2014

Wild Things – Book 9 in the Chicagoland Vampires Series by
Chloe Neill

Blurb - Since Merit
was turned into a vampire, and the protector of Chicago’s Cadogan House, it’s
been a wild ride. She and Master vampire Ethan Sullivan have helped make
Cadogan’s vampires the strongest in North America, and forged ties with
paranormal folk of all breeds and creeds, living or dead…or both.

But now those alliances are about to be tested. A strange and twisted magic has
ripped through the North American Central Pack, and Merit’s closest friends are
caught in the crosshairs. Gabriel Keene, the Pack Apex, looks to Merit and
Ethan for help. But who—or what—could possibly be powerful enough to out-magic
a shifter?

Merit is about to go toe to toe, and cold steel to cold heart, to find out.

So book 9 follows straight on from the end of book 8 Biting
Bad and boy is this one political!!!!

This book sees Chicago’s Mayor Diane Kowalcyzk going a bit
mad and trying to arrest Ethan for the murder of Harold Monmouth the GP vampire
who killed two human security guards and then tried to take out Merit and
Ethan. What I want to know is WHY is no one questioning that she’s gone
completely insane????

And to top it off it turns out that good old Diane is
actually a con artist named Tammy who the old Mayor Seth recruited. Do the law
abiding vampires of Chicago out her as a grafter to the general public no of
course not lol... no they use it as blackmail. Just love how devious Chloe
Neill’s mind is the sups now have the Mayor under their thumb just brilliant.

The supernatural encyclopaedia gets even larger in this book
as a load of new species emerge, including Harpies (bizarre winged she
bitches), Elves (huge androgynous warrior types) and various other creatures
who have all been kidnapped to create the ultimate freak show lol.

I’m not sure how many more supernatural species there are
left to come out of the woodworks but let’s have a quick count of the ones that
we have seen so far....

Vampires (obviously)

Shapeshifters

Sorcerers

Fairies

Angels

Fallen Angels

Nymphs

River Trolls

Gnomes (they seriously had pointy hats and beards)

Harpies

Sylphs (no idea what these are)

Elves and

Giantess’s....... and that’s just the ones I can think of

The best bits of this book.....

·The return of Mallory she is a much bigger part
of this book and has started to embrace her magic in a constructive way for the
bigger good and has become part of Merits mystery solving A-Team.

·We get a bit more of an insight into the
shifters and some of their culture and group dynamics, we are also introduced
to Damien brooding dark and dangerous (hell yes!!)

·Regan ... a new generation of evil = the love
child of evil fallen angel Dominic (absolute genius!!!) not sure if her capture
is the last we will see of her but i hope not.

·The A-Team the mishmash group of supernatural
detectives who help Merit to solve the crazy apocalypse going ons in Chicago,
all they need now is the Mystery machine!!!

The things that did my head in.....

·The political undertone of the whole book – the
vampires are arrested and treated as domestic terrorists and basically just
abused by the Mayor and her lackeys. This book felt a little bit more like a
social commentary on American politics hidden within a Supernatural novel.

·Morgan Greer the master of Navarre house needs a
slap he doesn’t appear at all in this book and I want him back just so Ethan
and Merit can kick his butt.

OK so another fan girl moment but I LOVE this series and now
there’s going to be a vampire baby!!!!! All together now awhhhhhhh.

And not just a baby but Ethan for GP president I love this
twist it totally leads us into the next book in the series cus seriously how
many supernatural crisis’s can Chicago have before I think they would be
justified in kicking out the Vampires lol.

Something’s coming for Gabriel the head of the shifters NCA pack
(love that they have hells angel style jackets!!) I’m not sure what but the prophecies
and their increased involvement with the vampires has to be leading to
something and I for one can’t wait.

So in this book Merit and Ethan are hiding out in the Breckenridge’s
pile in the country and once Merit confesses the prophecy that Gabriel shared
with her we see Ethan become a massive marshmallow at the prospect of Merit
having his baby. I love seeing Merit and Ethan in their quieter moments when it’s
just the two of them.

Overall book 9 Wild Things is as far as I’m concerned a
brilliant continuation of a brilliant series unfortunately I’ve read all of the
series currently published and now I’m gonna have to wait for book 10 to be
released.... I can’t wait!!!

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